Learning Outcomes:-

• Identify different analytical perspectives employed to understand organizations at? the individual, social, and structural levels.
• Interpret and apply these multiple perspectives to empirically analyze organizations and the contexts in which they operate.
• Draw on different analytical perspectives as the basis for a socially responsible, ideologically aware approach towards organizational problem-solving.
• Evaluate knowledge assumptions, including one’s own, and come to recognize their management implications and practical consequences.

Scenario

Where you are a consultant, working collaboratively with your client to solve an organizational problem. It is based on a real-world situation observed during the course of primary research into healthcare process improvement. You will deliver a report to your client that is grounded in theory and demonstrates an understanding of the real-world challenges associated with implementing solutions that impact organizational members. This assignment supports you to: develop a sophisticated understanding of organizational functionality gain experience in using a key, functionalist tool Understand the limitations of viewing organizations purely through a functionalist perspective understand the value of the interpretive/social relativist perspective and its limitations.